Twentieth Anniversary of 9/11 Essays [Mich. J. Race & Law]

The Michigan Journal of Race and the Law published a special volume on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that featured articles by leading scholars on national security, immigration, criminal law, and race. Sahar Aziz’s article State Sponsored Radicalization conducts a comprehensive review of the literature that rebukes the dominant (fallacious) government narrative about ‘radicalization’ to terrorism. Not only are there no empirically based criteria for predicting who is more likely to engage in politically motivated violence, but increased religiosity of Muslims has no correlation to terrorist tendencies. And… Continue reading “Twentieth Anniversary of 9/11 Essays [Mich. J. Race & Law]”
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How the U.S. Government Manufactured Muslim Terrorists [Thinking Allowed]

Sahar Aziz was a host on the Thinking Allowed Podcast where she discussed how the American government selective enforces counterterrorism laws against innocent Muslims, while overlooking the spike in far right wing extremism over the past decade that culminated in a siege on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Her analysis is based on her article State Sponsored Radicalization in the Michigan Journal of Race and the Law. To listen and watch the interview, click here.… Continue reading “How the U.S. Government Manufactured Muslim Terrorists [Thinking Allowed]”
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